I came across this
article from Insideline and realized how Mazda wasted the opportunity big time to have a Miata based Coupe with a compact, lightweight, low centre of gravity rotary engine.
In fact, even Toyobaru's chief engineer Tetsuya Tada said that various powertrains were investigated including a rotary engine and the main thing that was sought was low weight and compactness that would allow the centre of gravity to be lower.
Mazda had the perfect formula then with their rotary engine but they lost the window of opportunity now:
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In agonizingly short supply are compact, lightweight sporting tin-top cars that drive the wheels at the correct end of the car and place a premium on tactility and reward. It's no wonder everyone's champing at the bit for the 2013 Subaru BRZ — it's a car that for 22 years Mazda had the building blocks in place to create, but didn't.
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I couldn't agree more!
